Resolutions
NGAT is a member-based organization and input from our members forms the basis of the NGAT legislative agenda. Our duty is to support the Texas National Guard by presenting resolutions to the National level to garner support and lobbying assistance. It is important that we keep our representatives informed on important issues facing the National Guard today.
EMAIL US AT RESOLUTIONS@NGAT.ORG
NGAT Resolutions Chairs
Chair: Paul Cerniauskas
Army Chair: Paul Cerniauskas
Air Chair: Nate Norton
Have an idea for a Resolution?
Contact the Resolutions committee to submit ideas that benefit Texas National Guard members, their families and retirees. Submit resolution ideas by email to resolutions@ngat.org.
Better yet—join the committee and lend your expertise to the Association and its members.
Current Status of NGAT Resolutions
NGAT DRAFT Resolutions Backlog Status 3-3-25
NGAT Standing Resolution Status 9-2-24
Update Notices
Mar 2025 Update
Sep 2024 Update
April 2024 Update
Resolution Committee Meeting Dates
The NGAT Resolutions Committee will meet this coming year on the follow dates and time.
To be announced soon
If you are a member of NGAT and would like to attend the Resolutions Committee meeting, please email resolutions@ngat.org with your name, email, and phone number to request an invitation. You will receive the invitation with the Microsoft Teams link.
NGAT Resolutions Documents
Forms coming soon
EMAIL us at: resolutions@ngat.org
Why Are Resolutions Important?
NGAT, NGAUS and EANGUS are member-based organizations; input from our members is instrumental in determining what direction we take in the coming years. Your input defines what issues are important. Our duty is to support the National Guard community by lobbying the Texas State Legislature and the United States Congress.
Through face-to-face engagement, letters, emails, and phone calls, we make sure that our representatives understand the important issues facing the National Guard today.
What is a Resolution?
A resolution is a legislative idea that a member or state would like NGAT to work on. If it is a state issue, NGAT will work with the Texas State Legislature. For federal issues, NGAT will work with NGAUS or EANGUS to make our voice heard. As a member-based organization, NGAT, NGAUS and EANGUS solicits proposed resolutions from its membership aimed at enhancing the National Guard, its equipment, capabilities and the quality of life for Soldiers, Airmen and their families.
Resolutions are categorized as Army, Air or Joint. Army and Air resolutions relate to missions or equipment under the purview of the Army and Air National Guard, while Joint resolutions relate to issues involving personnel and benefits, medical, and domestic operations.
Preparing a Draft Resolution
Coming soon.
Resolutions Update March 2025
Hello, Texas Guardsmen!
I hope that you and your families are well. We’re approaching the best time of the year in Texas – warm and sunny.
The Resolutions Committee has been working on resolutions. We started the year with a backlog of resolutions – not a bad thing – and have been trying to determine where there is opportunity to move forward with those ideas.
When a resolution is submitted, our objective is to confirm understanding of the submitted idea/improvement; research to determine whether it’s already a regulation, law, or policy; and determine what would need to make this idea become a reality. At the NGAT conference, we present to membership those ideas that are clear in their objectives for voting as resolutions by our membership.
This year, we hope to have two: one national-level resolution regarding C-130J capability (fuel capacity improvement), and one state-level resolution regarding property tax relief for actively serving Guardsmen. If the C-130J capability idea passes as a resolution, we will send to the national level; to National Guard Association of the United States (NGAUS).
National level resolution ideas that benefit individual Guard members and pass as resolutions would be submitted to the national level to the Enlisted Association of the National Guard of the United States (EANGUS). This year, we do not anticipate sending any resolutions to EANGUS.
This is our second year of a fully-functioning resolutions process in NGAT. We have come a long way from a few years ago and I’m excited at our progress! I’m very grateful to the good people who submitted ideas – THANK YOU! (Progress starts with you: If you haven’t submitted your improvement ideas, please get on it and let us hear from you – submit your ideas to resolutions@ngat.org.) I’m also very grateful to the folks on the Resolutions Committee who put in the work to research these ideas after they’re submitted.
(Help wanted! If you want to be one of those good folks on the NGAT Resolutions Committee OR if you want to help research an individual idea, please let us know at resolutions@ngat.org.)
Resolutions (good ideas) and Government Affairs (legislative action) are why we have NGAT.
Please see the NGAT Government Affairs updates regarding actions on the two state-level resolutions we passed at our recent March conference. Those three resolutions are now considered Standing Resolutions and can be viewed here: https://ngat.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/NGAT-Standing-Resolution-Status_9-2-2024-1.pdf.
You can see the resolutions backlog for NGAT at this link: https://ngat.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Resolution-Backlog-03-Mar-2025.pdf . These are improvement ideas we are researching that could be NGAT resolutions in the future.
Thank you.
Regards,
Paul Cerniauskas
NGAT Resolutions Committee Chairman
NGAT Resolutions 2025 Information
C-103J Increased Fuel Capacity
NGAT Resolutions 2024 Information
Extending Federal Soldiers Civil Relief Act (SCRA) to State Active Duty (SAD)
Employee Benefits to Guardsmen on State Active Duty
C130J Large Aircraft Infrared Counter Measure (LAIRCM) System
State Sponsored Life Insurance (SSLI)
Group Term Insurance
This is a low-cost group term life insurance policy which provides coverage on the member, their spouse, and their dependent children. Starting at $3.66 a month for $10,000 policy.
Free $10,000 Life Insurance
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Free $1,000 Life Insurance
All currently serving members of the Texas Army and Air National Guard are automatically covered with a FREE $1,000 NGAT Life Insurance policy.
Fed Protect
Low cost Group Level Term Life Insurance for current and former members of the Texas National Guard and Texas State Guard between the ages of 18-75 are eligible to apply with coverage continuing through age 121.
Want to join NGAT?
The National Guard Association of Texas (NGAT) appears before various state and national legislative committees to speak on behalf of the Soldiers and Airmen of the Texas Military Forces. This is why your membership is so important. The greater our membership numbers, the more influence NGAT can bring to the political decision-makers and continue the fight on top issues affecting you and your family. Join NGAT today and make a real difference in the fight for your benefits and your future as a member of the Texas Military Forces.
